Quotes About Athletics

I love competing, and I love throwing the football.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury - soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping - you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

I love throwing the deep ball. That is something I'm not scared of.

You can't relax on the court with Luka Doncic. Even if you're not open, he can make Luka magic at any moment - throwing a perfect pass that somehow lands in your hands. Every game, he debuts a new move. It's crazy.

I was 2 years old and already swinging bats and throwing balls.

In high school, I was probably 155 - I wanted to run fast and get a scholarship, so, it was drilled in me that if you lose weight, you'll run faster. So, I went on a diet - I did lose weight, but then I hit a plateau where I couldn't lose any more weight. So, I started throwing my food up, so I became bulimic.

I'm 30, but I feel mentally as good as I've ever felt and as far as throwing the ball and understanding the game, I feel great.

I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.

Actually, I started throwing the stiff-arm in college. I had some big plays in college from the stiff-arm.

Vitali Klitschko clobbered me with jabs left and right. I believe he threw the most punches he had thrown in his career against me, and that's because I just kept coming with the pressure.

As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

My technique is such that even if I turn my back on the throw, I understand what I have thrown and I start celebrating.

I have to be able to make plays when the ball is thrown to my side.

I've thrown a lot of curls over the years.

I've always thrown like a girl.

Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don't want to be thrown around like you're nothing.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.

I've had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had a dart thrown at my back at Burnley. And potatoes with razor blades.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.